HOTXSINC Meeting: February 11, 2018 at Cafe Express

Our mission is to promote
the ongoing advancement, recognition,
and professional development of women crime writers. ~ SINC Mission Statement

NEW LOCATION on February 11: CAFE EXPRESS!
Program: Meredith Lee (Dixie Evatt and Sue Cleveland) on How to Launch Your Book
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Dixie Evatt & Sue Cleveland

writing as

Meredith Lee

on

How to Launch Your Book!

Sue Cleveland & Dixie Lee Evatt

Dixie Evatt and Sue Cleveland, writing as Meredith Lee, authored SHROUDED, a Crispin Leads mystery. They’ll tell us the steps they took and the adventures they had in launching their first book last fall.

New feature: How many times do we think of a question, but it escapes before the meeting. This year SinC encourages members to send questions in advance of the meeting. Each month, we will post the guest speakers for the following month and the deadline for advance questions. The questions will be passed on to the speakers as soon as we receive them.

Send questions for Sue and Dixie — Deadline Sunday, February 4.

Please e-mail advance questions to Fran Paino at franpaino at gmail dot com OR to

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Laura Oleswill speak and sign copies of her new book,DAUGHTERS OF BAD MEN,atBookPeopleonFebruary 5, 2018, at 7:00 p.m.Terry Shames(A RECKONING IN THE BACK COUNTRY)andJames Ziskin(A STONE’S THROW)will also speak and sign. DAUGHTERS OF BAD MEN is Laura’s first book.

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ThirtyNineStars, the business partnership of Sisters in Crime Dixie Lee Evatt and Sue Meredith Cleveland, received the 2017 Ignite Rising Star Award from IngramSpark.

The writers, who publish under the pen name Meredith Lee, were notified that they were selected for the award, which recognizes, “authors new to IngramSpark in 2017 who have already demonstrated a savvy approach to their self-publishing journeys.”

IngramSpark is the distributor of the author’s debut novel, SHROUDED. The thriller, the first installment in the Crispin Leads Mystery Series, is the story of a graduate student whose trip to Rome to study burial rituals at the Vatican is derailed when she is witness to a murder.

Ignite awards honor booksellers, publishers and libraries that exhibit outstanding best practices in indie publishing in three categories: best practices in indie publishing, best practices in community engagement, and rising stars.

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The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective’s personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

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Someone once asked John Updike, “Why don’t you write a mystery?”
And he answered, “Because I’m not smart enough.”
Here’s a guy who’s written brilliant fiction, won two Pulitzer Prizes,
but he has a different skill set, just as I couldn’t have written Rabbit, Run.
Writing a mystery takes planning and plotting.
You lay a bomb on page nine; it doesn’t explode till page four hundred.
Even a bad book takes some talent and work to put together.

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The Tabasco Opera –
Great find! I spent entirely too much time reading and listening to excerpts of this delightful opera. Now the question is, where can I find a CD of the production. I suspect Giuseppe Verdi had a great influence on the composer, George Chadwick.